Units of the Self-Defense Forces in the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan wrote nippō, daily reports. After a disclosure request in October 2016, the Ground Self-Defense Force answered that the reports had already been discarded and did not exist. On March 15, 2017, NHK reported that the reports were still kept within the Ground Self-Defense Force.
On July 28, 2017, the results of a special defense inspection were published. The same day, Defense Minister Inada Tomomi said that she had handed her resignation to Prime Minister Abe Shinzō that morning and that it had been accepted.